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Ennead V (Loeb Classical Library, Volume 444)

Plotinus (204/5-270 CE) was once the 1st and maximum of Neoplatonic philosophers. His writings have been edited by way of his disciple Porphyry, who released them a long time after his master's loss of life in six units of 9 treatises every one (the Enneads).

Plotinus looked Plato as his grasp, and his personal philosophy is a profoundly unique improvement of the Platonism of the 1st centuries of the Christian period and the heavily comparable considered the Neopythagoreans, with a few affects from Aristotle and his fans and the Stoics, whose writings he knew good yet used seriously. he's a distinct blend of mystic and Hellenic rationalist. His inspiration ruled later Greek philosophy and inspired either Christians and Moslems, and remains to be alive this day as a result of its union of rationality and severe non secular adventure.

In his acclaimed version of Plotinus, Armstrong offers very good introductions to every treatise. His priceless notes clarify imprecise passages and provides connection with parallels in Plotinus and others.

Livre de la vie

Dans cette autobiographie spirituelle, achevée en 1562, Thérèse d'Avila montre los angeles valeur providentielle de ce qui lui arrive (son entrée au couvent, l. a. grave maladie qui los angeles frappe, ses visions, enfin sa réforme du Carmel). Consciente des contraintes de los angeles vie matérielle, elle a voulu que ses newbies sachent lire et écrire, afin d'accueillir des femmes d'esprit, capables de résister à los angeles tentation d'un mysticisme de pacotille.

Corpus Hermeticum

Teachings of the Hindu Mystics

This anthology collects the main lyrical, passionate, illuminating writings of the Hindu mystical culture. Andrew Harvey, the preferred non secular student and author, has chosen excerpts from historic and modern assets, together with extracts from the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, and different classical Hindu texts; the phrases of such venerable non secular lecturers as Ramakrishna and Ramana Maharshi; and the devotional poetry of Mirabai, Ramprasad, and so forth.